Pennsylvania Project
Modeling potential habitat for pheasant population restoration
July 2015 - December 2017
Personnel
Participating Agencies
- Pennsylvania Game Commission
The Pennsylvania Game Commission (PGC) has established several Wild Pheasant Restoration Areas (WPRAs) with specific population density goals (10 hen pheasants per square mile). Research being conducted on these areas provides an opportunity to evaluate under which habitat conditions wild pheasant populations have met established pheasant density goals. If additional WPRAs are going to be considered in Pennsylvania it would be useful to have a predictive model to assess existing landscapes to determine if pheasant restoration is possible or what habitat changes would be required to ensure success of the WPRA.
| Research Publications | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Williamson, L. T., W. David Walter, S. R. Klinger, and D. R. Diefenbach. 2018. Incorporating detection probability to estimate pheasant density. Journal of Wildlife Management. 82(8):1680–1688; DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.21545 | Download | September 2018 |
| Presentations | Presentation Date |
|---|---|
| Williamson, L. T., D. R. Diefenbach, W. D. Walter. 2016. Modeling potential habitat for pheasant population restoration in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, State College, PA. | April 2016 |
| Williamson, L. T., D. R. Diefenbach, W. D. Walter. 2016. Modeling potential habitat for pheasant population restoration in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Raystown Lake, PA. | April 2017 |
| Williamson, L. T., D. R. Diefenbach, W. D. Walter. 2016. Modeling potential habitat for pheasant population restoration in Pennsylvania. The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Raleigh, NC. | October 2016 |
| Williamson, L. T., S. R. Klinger, D. R. Diefenbach, W. D. Walter. 2017. Density Estimation and Habitat Modeling for Pheasant Population Restoration in Pennsylvania. The Wildlife Society Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM. | September 2017 |
| Theses and Dissertations | Publication Date |
|---|---|
| Williamson, L. T. 2017. Monitoring wild ring-necked pheasant population restoration in Pennsylvania. M.S. Thesis, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA. | December 2017 |